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03/:4 ~ °091:.5: ? i :~:\.'. 303 631 201C SV~t,L k~ wi LyER <br />Snell &Wilmer <br />L.L.P. <br />uw or~lces <br />1200 Seven[eenth Street, Suite 1950 <br />Tabor Cencer <br />Denver, Colorado 80202 <br />(303)6342000 <br />Fax: (303)634-2020 <br />Roben D. Comer (303) 634-2015 <br />Inamer. rcamer®sWlav.com <br />March 14, 2001 <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />1313 Sherman Street, Suite 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />m+vEnnwtnanuo <br />aconx nnaa+n <br />Tl)bt)N. ANQONA <br />uvoa,cunnaNu <br />w.rt.vsrm.vux <br />PETITION FOR FORMAL REVIEW BY THE MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD <br />POWDERHORN COAL COMPANY NOTICE OF VIOLATION <br />(NOV # CV-2000-010) <br />Comes now Powderhom Coal Company ("Powderhom"), by and through its aitortreys, <br />Snell &Wilmer, LLC, and petitions the Mined Land Reclamation Board (the "Board") for <br />formal review of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology ("DMG") Notice of Violation <br />('TiOV'~ issued to Powderhom on December 14, 2001. Powderhom requests that the Board <br />rescind the NOV as having been issued without authority of law. <br />Introduction <br />Powderhom owns the underground Roadside and Cameo Mines near Cameo, Colorado <br />(the "Powderhom Mines") (permit no. C-1981-041). Approximately two-thirds of the surface is <br />federally managed by the Bureau of Land Management. In a letter dated March 13, 2000, <br />Powderhom notiEed DMG of the permanent cessation of mining operations. Reclamation has <br />been initiated at the mines and the company is full compliance with its operating permit. <br />Reclamation of the Powderhom Mines is guazanteed by approximately $2.9 million in <br />surety bonds. Frontier Insurance Company ("Frontier") issued Reclamation Bond No. 108486 <br />(the "Bond") in the amount of $2.6 million to Powderhom. Utica Mutual Insurance Company <br />issued a bond in the approximate amount of $300,000; the Utica bond is not at issue in this <br />proceeding. The DMG and U.S. Office of Surface Mining ("OSM'~ are listed as obligees on the <br />Bond. <br />Snell 6 W ilmer h a member of t[a MUr+ni, a IevJmg nsasuunn of independent law firms. <br />'.M . <br />y- <br />;: . <br />r, <br />i t4 „L <br />rn N <br />-+r: w <br />:;~,: <br />-' <br /> <br />Y. 1 <br />